Although the latest Screaming Eagle vintage is undoubtedly great we just don’t have time to pick up a bottle (even on sale for only $1,999 at www.klwines.com). So we buy our wine at the local supermarket (usually Vons, aka Safeway, and occasionally Costco). We don’t “taste” our wine, we drink it. We’re faced with the same difficult questions as you such as “the only wine we have in the house is champagne but we’re having chili for dinner, hmm, is that a bad combo?” (We tried it, it was just okay, but the champagne definitely improved once the kids were in bed).